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U.S. President Donald Trump gives a speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on January 21, 2026 in Davos, Switzerland. The annual meeting of political and business leaders comes amid rising tensions between the United States and Europe over a range of issues, including Trump's vow to acquire Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump issues veiled threats at Davos

Jelinda Montes

The president spoke of Greenland with the noncommittal menace of a mobster at the World Economic Forum

MTV (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Naivete isn’t a media literacy flaw

Melanie McFarland

A viral misunderstanding of MTV’s "demise" illustrates the urge to believe what feels right

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. waits to enter a meeting with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Capitol Hill on January 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. set back by resistance

Sophia Tesfaye

Accountability reporting is helping reverse health policy and funding shifts tied to the HHS secretary’s agenda

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Epstein explains everything about Trump

Amanda Marcotte

From Greenland to Minneapolis, it's all rooted in his predatory ways

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, speaks  in Dallas on Dec. 19, 2025. (Omar Vega/Getty Images)

Jasmine Crockett and authenticity

Maya Rupert

The "Las Culturistas" dust-up shows the impossible standards Black women politicians must navigate

Donald Trump | US Supreme Court building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Economist worried as SCOTUS eyes tariffs

Kent Jones - The Conversation

Trump’s tariffs pose a threat to “economic democracy”

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND - JANUARY 20: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting held in Davos, Switzerland on January 20, 2026. (Photo by Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Canada PM rails against US economic rule

Jelinda Montes

Mark Carney called the global order based on rules a “fiction” in a World Economic Forum speech Tuesday

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a press briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on January 20, 2026 in Washington, DC. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was joined by President Trump days after the president threatened a 10% import tax on goods from eight European countries that have rallied around Denmark amid Trump's calls for the U.S. to take control of Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory. (Photo by Kevin  Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump clashes with Europe over Greenland

Jelinda Montes

Despite European leaders’ pleas, Trump refuses to back down on Greenland

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MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, U.S. â" JANUARY 15: People take part in an anti-ICE protest outside Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 15, 2026. (Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Most people say ICE has gone “too far"

Russell Payne

Most Americans say Trump's war on immigration is backfiring and want Congress to restrict ICE

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 18: A protester with an anti-ICE sign, stands outside of the Henry Bishop Whipple Federal building on January 18, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protesters continued to gather to demonstrate against an ongoing immigration enforcement dubbed "Operation Metro Surge". (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

ICE protest at church draws DOJ outrage

Jelinda Montes

Local activists protested a St. Paul ICE field officer’s church. Now they’re under federal investigation.

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This planner won't change your life

Andi Zeisler

You got a new planner that promises a new you? Time to manage those expectations

PORTLAND, OR - JULY 30: A journalist runs past federal officers after he was caught behind a police line during a protest against racial injustice and police brutality in front of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in the early hours of July 30, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Protests against the federal presence in Portland continued Wednesday following an announcement by Governor Kate Brown that federal officers would begin a phased withdrawal from the city. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Mainstream media built the police myth

Nicholas Liu

Alec Karakatsanis explained how the news media demonizes the poor while protecting the powerful

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Mom's for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice speaks with Maud Maron, Jennifer Sey, Tulsi Gabbard, and Texas State Rep. Shawn Thierry at the 2024 Mom's for Liberty National Summit in Washington D.C., Friday, August 30, 2024. (DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

The revival of Moms for Liberty

Andrew Kordik

After setbacks and scandals, the group's efforts have expanded — and its role in public education is growing

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speak at a press conference on June 11, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

To win, Dems should chuck their leaders

Norman Solomon

The first step in defeating Trump and MAGA is giving Schumer and Jeffries the boot

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Is ChatGPT Health the new WebMD?

Nicole Karlis

OpenAI’s new chatbot aims to bolster users' health decisions — but risks fueling confusion and anxiety

ICE and other federal officers remove a woman from her vehicle near an area where ICE was operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 13, 2026. (Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

ICE violence against women on the rise

Candice Norwood, The 19th - The 19th

The killing of Renee Nicole Good underscores the forceful tactics long used against marginalized women

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Accused gang members and assumed criminals have been deported to CECOT (Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo), a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has been sending those who it deems as "illegal." (John Moore / Getty Images)

"60 Minutes" finally airs CECOT story

CK Smith

The investigation into infamous CECOT facility airs weeks late, amid growing issues with US immigration enforcement

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Meals that help when life gets hard

Ashlie D. Stevens

When sick days, parental leave and rough weeks hit, here’s how to show up with food

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MLK would be appalled by our health care

Tiffany D. Joseph

As the nation's health crumbles under Trump, King's words from 1966 remain more timely than ever

Dolly Parton speaks onstage at Dolly Parton's Threads: My Songs In Symphony World Premiere on March 20, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Dolly Parton, our national unifier

Martha Ackmann

Parton offers a model for how Americans might better live together

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President Donald Trump at a political rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on Dec. 19, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Some Trump voters are sneaking away

Amanda Marcotte

They'll never admit they're wrong, but polling reveals quiet GOP regret

March 1965:  American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929  - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery;  among those pictured are, front row, politician and civil rights activist John Lewis (1940 – 2020), Reverend Ralph Abernathy (1926 - 1990), Ruth Harris Bunche (1906 - 1988), Nobel Prize-winning political scientist and diplomat Ralph Bunche (1904 - 1971), activist Hosea Williams (1926 – 2000 right carrying child). (Photo by William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Conservatives’ war against civil rights

Russell Payne

For decades, conservatives have worked to rollback the civil and voting rights that Martin Luther King Jr. upheld

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preaching from his pulpit circa 1960 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. (Dozier Mobley/Getty Images)

MLK's fight for universal basic income

Tarah Williams, Andrew Bloeser - The Conversation

Martin Luther King Jr. became involved not just in fights over racial equality but also economic hardship

Protests in Greenland continue as most lawmakers in the U.S. seem to agree that taking over the arctic country isn't the right step for the U.S. (Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The cracks in Trump’s Greenland strategy

CK Smith

Bipartisan lawmakers acknowledged the diplomatic and constitutional risks of Trump's empire-building approach

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